Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

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✔ "Parents in particular would be well advised to make this book compulsory reading for their teenage children before allowing them to go online." - David B. Henderson, ACM Computing Reviews✔ "A great book for social media experts ... the most thoroughly researched book I have seen about Facebook." - Will M., AllFacebook.com

Abstract

Facebook’s psychological experiments and Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks epitomize a world of increasing information awareness in the social media ecosystem. With over a billion monthly active users, Facebook as a nation is overtaking China as the largest country in the world. President Barack Obama, in his 2011 State of the Union Address, called America “the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers” and “of Google and Facebook.” U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel opines that America has become a “Facebook nation” that demands increased transparency and interactivity from the federal government. Ubiquitous social networks such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and YouTube are creating the technologies, infrastructures, and big data necessary for Total Information Awareness – a controversial surveillance program proposed by DARPA after the 9/11 attacks. NSA’s secret PRISM program has reinvigorated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s accusation that “Facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said, “We exist at the intersection of technology and social issues.” This book offers discourse and practical advice on the privacy issue in the age of big data, business intelligence in social media, e-government and e-activism, as well as personal total information awareness. This expanded edition also includes new chapters by Facebook ROI experts Dennis Yu and Alex Houg as well as Wikipedian Emily Temple-Wood, cofounder of WikiProject Women Scientists.

Table of Contents

PART I: PROLOGUE Chapter 1: From 1984 to Total Information Awareness

PART II: PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA Chapter 2: Social Networks and Privacy Chapter 3: Smartphones and Privacy Chapter 4: Privacy Breaches

PART III: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN SOCIAL MEDIA Chapter 5: Business Intelligence Chapter 6: Facebook Analytics, Advertising, and Marketing (by Dennis Yu and Alex Houg) Chapter 7: Consumer Privacy in the Age of Big Data

PART IV: THE RISE OF FACEBOOK NATION Chapter 8: Twitter – a World of Immediacy Chapter 9: Misinformation and Disinformation Chapter 10: Wikipedia and the New Web (by Emily Temple-Wood) Chapter 11: E-Government and E-Activism

PART V: TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS IN FACEBOOK NATION Chapter 12: Generation C in the Age of Big Data Chapter 13: Living in Facebook Nation Chapter 14: Personal Privacy and Information ManagementChapter 15: Personal Total Information Awareness

PART VI: EPILOGUE Chapter 16: From Total Information Awareness to 1984

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Facebook Timeline and Addendum to the Book

2018

Facebook draws criticism and privacy concerns as Cambridge Analyticagained access to data from 50 million Americans for political advertising. CNN

Aiming to bring people closer together, Facebook updates its News Feed algorithm to show more posts from friends and family, and to show less public content from publishers and businesses. Facebook Newsroom

Mark Zuckerberg announces New Year's resolution: "My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work. You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man." Facebook